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steve wilson and kevin wamsley, thank you so much. >> woodruff: next, the boy scouts of america. at the center of criticism once again over the group's policy towards gays and lesbians. jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: for more than a hundred years, starting in 1910, boy scouts have been camping, working on merit badges, learning life skills. since the late 1990s, the organization-- today numbering some 2.7 million scouts and more than a million adult volunteers -- has faced pressure to change its long-standing policy of excluding scouts and leaders who are openly gay. in 2000, the u.s. supreme court upheld the scouts' right to maintain that stance, citing the constitutional right to freedom of association. and on tuesday, after a confidential two-year review, a special committee of the boy scouts reaffirmed the policy. in a statement, chief scout executive bob mazzuca said: gay rights groups condemned the decision. and online campaigns are trying to reverse the policy. one petition-- on the website change.org-- was organized by ohio mother jennifer tyrrell. she was removed
steve wilson and kevin wamsley, thank you so much. >> woodruff: next, the boy scouts of america. at the center of criticism once again over the group's policy towards gays and lesbians. jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: for more than a hundred years, starting in 1910, boy scouts have been camping, working on merit badges, learning life skills. since the late 1990s, the organization-- today numbering some 2.7 million scouts and more than a million adult volunteers -- has faced...
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. >> woodruff: special correspondent steve sapienza has the story of the human toll on workers in thailand's shrimp industry. >> hundreds of factories large and small will ship over 200,000 tons of shrimp to the u.s. this year. but there's a darker side to the business here. one that involves human trafficking, corruption, and violence against workers. >> warner: we look at the growing use of potent and sometimes deadly street drugs, known as bath salts, also the subject of our extensive online report today. >> woodruff: plus, jeffrey brown explores an intriguing scrap of paper that just might show jesus was married. >> so jesus said to them-- that would be his disciples-- "my wife." it is the only extant piece of early christian literature where jesus talks about having a wife. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this
. >> woodruff: special correspondent steve sapienza has the story of the human toll on workers in thailand's shrimp industry. >> hundreds of factories large and small will ship over 200,000 tons of shrimp to the u.s. this year. but there's a darker side to the business here. one that involves human trafficking, corruption, and violence against workers. >> warner: we look at the growing use of potent and sometimes deadly street drugs, known as bath salts, also the subject of...
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and i think, judy, one want look at this race in texas without looking at steve's retirement in ohio. steve latourette, republican congressman, nine terms, a player on the health, respected on both sides of the aisle, a republican, close to speaker boehner. but because he strayed occasionally from the orthodoxy of his party, because he didn't raise enough money for the party coffers, he was going to be denied a leadership position and finally said, and he said in his farewell remarks, compromise what become a dirty word among my party. >> woodruff: how do you see all that? we don't know whether ted cruz is going to win. it is expected he will win in november. >> right. >> so i would say mark used the word conviction and that's the right word here this is a guy at age 13 was going to seminars and learning about hyack and-- went to prince toon, studied with robert george, a serious conservative intellectual. he goes to harvard law, then for justice rehnquist, he has come up through the ranks of the conservative intellectual machine f you want to put it that way. he has a very madisonian
and i think, judy, one want look at this race in texas without looking at steve's retirement in ohio. steve latourette, republican congressman, nine terms, a player on the health, respected on both sides of the aisle, a republican, close to speaker boehner. but because he strayed occasionally from the orthodoxy of his party, because he didn't raise enough money for the party coffers, he was going to be denied a leadership position and finally said, and he said in his farewell remarks,...
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>> i completely agree with steve. the russian influence on assad is real but limited. there is another country which has more influence on assad and it is iran. the real dilemma for the russians would be if we say, okay, let's have this negotiation. let's have russia disabled but iran should be excluded. assad says, well, i am willing to be a part of the negotiations but not without iran. to accept the exclusion of iran would be a difficult concession for putin. my impression is that it is not quite there yet. >> woodruff: given that, again steve heydemann, how is the west looking at all this? >> it's happening very quickly. it's a matter of enormous concern. if the regime were to collapse in the absence of a political settlement, the potential for increased violence, the possibility that the opposition now is taking shape entirely is not yet ready to govern is seen as a very serious consideration in washington. however, the question of whether it would be possible for the u.s., for example, to accept a negotiated process in which assad himself were permitted to escape
>> i completely agree with steve. the russian influence on assad is real but limited. there is another country which has more influence on assad and it is iran. the real dilemma for the russians would be if we say, okay, let's have this negotiation. let's have russia disabled but iran should be excluded. assad says, well, i am willing to be a part of the negotiations but not without iran. to accept the exclusion of iran would be a difficult concession for putin. my impression is that it...
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when the late steve jobs talked about thermo nuclear war, why is is steve jobs so angry about android in a samsung product? >> well, he says that android, the way android works copied all kinds of things from apple's operating system. so, for example, if you look at an apple phone and you scroll through your contacts, you'll notice when you get to the very end, say, a, it bounces back, right? and this is a little bounce. that same kind of bounce was put into the android operating system. although now in a concession to apple, they've taken it out of the samsung phone. so that's the kind of thing they're fighting over. these little things that i guess to apple... apple feels like these are the kinds of things that make their products really elegant. indeed, apple makes really elegant products. but just because apple put things together beautifully doesn't necessarily mean they're entitled to protection from the patent system. many of these things may have already been out there. people may have been doing them. they just didn't do them as well as apple the judge in this case is a forme
when the late steve jobs talked about thermo nuclear war, why is is steve jobs so angry about android in a samsung product? >> well, he says that android, the way android works copied all kinds of things from apple's operating system. so, for example, if you look at an apple phone and you scroll through your contacts, you'll notice when you get to the very end, say, a, it bounces back, right? and this is a little bounce. that same kind of bounce was put into the android operating system....
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and i really do think david's right, steve ratner did a great job but it was barack obama. and mitt romney was wrong. d this, they're still on the defensive about this, at redntly as thursday night in defines, ohio, rob portman, senator fromas ohio and the surrogate debate substitute for president obama introduced mitt romney saying let's get this straight. mitt romney was the first guy-- barack obama took gm and chrysler through bankruptcy. mitt romney was for guaranteeing loans, and they're still trying to explain it. and he's very much on the fensive. so obama is runningve better with whnies and white males in ohio than he is elsewhere, in large part because of the auto bailout and they've got a great ground game in ohio too. >> we should emphasize it's not a slam-dunk for obama. if you look at the polls it's been a very steady two point advantages >> uh-huh. >> in the state for obama. and one of the oddities of the race so far is that the national numbers probably a slight romney favorite right now, the state numbers like ohio, and obama favored. and i don't know too ma
and i really do think david's right, steve ratner did a great job but it was barack obama. and mitt romney was wrong. d this, they're still on the defensive about this, at redntly as thursday night in defines, ohio, rob portman, senator fromas ohio and the surrogate debate substitute for president obama introduced mitt romney saying let's get this straight. mitt romney was the first guy-- barack obama took gm and chrysler through bankruptcy. mitt romney was for guaranteeing loans, and they're...
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we have steve king one of the most conservative republicans in the republican congress and he has been for sometime. he isvñub nay tough race against christy billsack, the agriculture secretary. and would object to snap cuts or object to food stamps in any normal setting but because his state is such an agricultural center and because the drought is so bad he wants it passed. and he is being hit back home not just by christy but by constituents. we are seeing this sort of pressure to get this thing done. >> you were telling us earlier today, the republican leadership was looking at the kind of pressure that these members were going to face as they went home. what do they expect is going to happen? it is a five-week recess. >> five-week recess it may take nothing short of a grassroots ground swell of constituent anger, pressure from ag groups to get this done when members come back. the divisions have been that badment they tried to pass a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill and pulled last-minute because they did not have the votes. they barely squeaked through the drought aid pa
we have steve king one of the most conservative republicans in the republican congress and he has been for sometime. he isvñub nay tough race against christy billsack, the agriculture secretary. and would object to snap cuts or object to food stamps in any normal setting but because his state is such an agricultural center and because the drought is so bad he wants it passed. and he is being hit back home not just by christy but by constituents. we are seeing this sort of pressure to get this...
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steve jobs came in. he came up with the creative genius. he came up with the new products, and you know a dozen years later, the company is on top of the world. so, that's kind of a wonderful thing about our system, that people can get up off the floor and rise to the top again. >> brown: richard sylla and ted schadler, that's thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. >> pleasure. >> ifill: now, the second in a pair of stories about efforts to keep students from losing ground over the summer. last night, we looked at a rhode island school district's attempts to close the achievement gap between rich and poor. tonight we head across the country to seattle. a nonprofit group there runs a year-round program which aims even higher-- to college graduation. our report is part of our "american graduate" series, and we turn again to hari sreenivasan. >> as summer draws to close in a seattle, roughly 50,000 k through 12 students across the city are ending vacations and preparing to head back into classrooms but for 13-year-old mira cornelius mccl
steve jobs came in. he came up with the creative genius. he came up with the new products, and you know a dozen years later, the company is on top of the world. so, that's kind of a wonderful thing about our system, that people can get up off the floor and rise to the top again. >> brown: richard sylla and ted schadler, that's thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. >> pleasure. >> ifill: now, the second in a pair of stories about efforts to keep students from...
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. >> more to come, steve sestanovich, thank you so much. >> pleasure. >> brown: again, the other major developments of the day: an afghan police trainee shot and killed two american troops, the latest in a rash of insider attacks by afghans against nato forces. the government of south africa opened an inquiry into a bloody confrontation at a platinum mine. police killed 34 striking miners yesterday and wounded nearly 80. and the death toll from a wave of attacks in iraq rose to 93. bombings and shootings erupted across much of the country on thursday. and a program note: tonight's edition of "need to know" profiles a ten-year-old girl determined to overcome a troubling family legacy, four generations suffering from diabetes and obesity. >> woodruff: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are 11 more. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at hands- on summer school classes to help level the playing fiel
. >> more to come, steve sestanovich, thank you so much. >> pleasure. >> brown: again, the other major developments of the day: an afghan police trainee shot and killed two american troops, the latest in a rash of insider attacks by afghans against nato forces. the government of south africa opened an inquiry into a bloody confrontation at a platinum mine. police killed 34 striking miners yesterday and wounded nearly 80. and the death toll from a wave of attacks in iraq rose...
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steve makes an important point. the fight will be drawing the line between giving up some tensions, health care benefits at the bargaining table which they've shown willingness to do across the country and actually losing their rights and actually losing their numbers because what scott walker set out to do was to undermine them institutionally. keep them from collecting dues, basically eviscerate the union as a hole because it's a big foundation of the democratic party and supporting the democratic party and so i think what you'll see going forward is other attempts to undermine their actual rights and their numbers. they're going to have to try to hold the line at that while still probably giving up some dollars at the bargaining table which, again, they've shown willingness to do. >> ifill: and perhaps tomorrow's election will give us some sort of guide of which direction this union's going to go, at least this one. alec macgillis of the new republic and steve greenhouse of the "new york times," thank you very mu
steve makes an important point. the fight will be drawing the line between giving up some tensions, health care benefits at the bargaining table which they've shown willingness to do across the country and actually losing their rights and actually losing their numbers because what scott walker set out to do was to undermine them institutionally. keep them from collecting dues, basically eviscerate the union as a hole because it's a big foundation of the democratic party and supporting the...
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capital advisors in connecticut which is run by billionaire steve cohen gathered inside information about an alzheimers cli.$kal drug trial that was being conducted. based on that information he built a position of $700 million in the two drug companies that were running the trial. through his connections with a neurologist at the university of michigan, he gathered inside information about the progress of that clinical drug trial first building the position in the stock when he thought the trial was going well and then when he affirmatively learned it was not going so well he had the sell all of its shares and stock options. gained or avoided losses of $276 million. >> what do we know about this firm and this individual? some of his employees have been in the cross hairsÑi before. >> cohen had one of the best track records on wall street in terms of running his hedge fund. he's had returns averaging 30% a year since 1992. he personally is worth about $8 billion. six of his employees have been criminally charged in the last three years in the wall street crackdown on insider trading by u
capital advisors in connecticut which is run by billionaire steve cohen gathered inside information about an alzheimers cli.$kal drug trial that was being conducted. based on that information he built a position of $700 million in the two drug companies that were running the trial. through his connections with a neurologist at the university of michigan, he gathered inside information about the progress of that clinical drug trial first building the position in the stock when he thought the...
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i mean steve forbes did but-- . >> woodruff: but again you're referring to the tax return. >> ed tax returns, i just think it's all of a piece and i just think it's a problem. mitt romney should not be on the defensive, he's on its defensive. >> the response on bain in particular is easy but it's not politically popular, which is bain invested in companies that added jobs and expanded, invested in companies that reduced labor costs, by outsourcing, both domestic and international and invested in companies that closed and fired a lot of people. you know, that if you are disturbed by that, are you disturbed by modern capitalism. mitt romney was not a crooked businessman, he was-- this was the system that we have in many ways. but that's a tough case for any presidential candidate to make. its-- capital civil a harsh system. the problem is there are just no other good alternatives. >> what about mark's point that not releasing the returns is going to continue to be an issue? >> well, i think there is a challenge here that it's proof that the, once again that the very rich are not like y
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steve klein also has a t.v. show on a network that is owned by a charity that we are finding linked to the film. >> brown: some of the confusion, i think-- at least for me-- there's a 13 or 14-minute video clip which people can see and clearly people are seeing. was there an actual film ever made that appeared? >> we've heard that an actual film, a feature length film screened at a theater in hollywood earlier this summer, the two people i've spoken to worked on the film say they never saw a feature length film. they've only seen what we've seen which is a 14-minute clip. but apparently only about 10 people showed up to a screening at a place called the vine theater in hollywood for a full length feature film. >> brown: do you know what law enforcement is looking for in southern california? >> i think they're looking for this person who has gone by the name bacile and goes by many other names. i think they're pursuing also a charity group that are involved in the making of the film. >> brown: rebecca keegan of t
steve klein also has a t.v. show on a network that is owned by a charity that we are finding linked to the film. >> brown: some of the confusion, i think-- at least for me-- there's a 13 or 14-minute video clip which people can see and clearly people are seeing. was there an actual film ever made that appeared? >> we've heard that an actual film, a feature length film screened at a theater in hollywood earlier this summer, the two people i've spoken to worked on the film say they...
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. >> reporter: steve horwitz sells a broad variety of medical marijuana products in his south denver store, ganja gourmet. >> there are all kinds of chocolates and cookies and brownies. >> reporter: his is just one of 500 such dispensaries which have opened over the last four years, ever since colorado started allowing stores to sell the drug for medical uses. since then, a large market has flourished, and more than 100,000 residents now carry physician-recommended cards allowing them to buy the drug. but passage of a ballot initiative known as "amendment 64" will likely take retail marijuana to a whole new level, since presumably anyone who can now buy alcohol will be allowed to buy the drug. horwitz said almost as soon as the votes were counted last week, he began to hear from potential customers. >> and then all day long, the phone was ringing off the hook. they're pot tourists. they want to come to colorado and they want to do like they do in amsterdam. >> reporter: but those would-be high fliers probably shouldn't start booking plane tickets yet. horwitz and others in the medica
. >> reporter: steve horwitz sells a broad variety of medical marijuana products in his south denver store, ganja gourmet. >> there are all kinds of chocolates and cookies and brownies. >> reporter: his is just one of 500 such dispensaries which have opened over the last four years, ever since colorado started allowing stores to sell the drug for medical uses. since then, a large market has flourished, and more than 100,000 residents now carry physician-recommended cards...
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money that cofounder steve deangelo would end up on the street. >> we have taken $25 million a year of illegal drug sales off the streets of oakland and brought them in to harbor side. >> deangelo has been a marijuana activists since he was a teenager. says when he moved to california in 2001 there weren't many places for patients to buy marijuana safely. >> i started harbor side to create a model of best practices for the cannabis industry to demonstrate that it can be distributed in a way that professional and responsible and bring benefits to -- >> since it was founded, harbore world's largest marijuana dispensary. it serves more than 115,000 patients. as expanded to a second location in san jose. deangelo's business attracted media attention from across the globe. >> the harbor side medical center this is actually the largest medical can business disbones knee. >> harbor side says it has 20,000 clients. >> from the harbor side health center in oakland. >> it wasn't just media that was paying attention. someone else noticed harbor side, too. the federal government. this past july u.
money that cofounder steve deangelo would end up on the street. >> we have taken $25 million a year of illegal drug sales off the streets of oakland and brought them in to harbor side. >> deangelo has been a marijuana activists since he was a teenager. says when he moved to california in 2001 there weren't many places for patients to buy marijuana safely. >> i started harbor side to create a model of best practices for the cannabis industry to demonstrate that it can be...
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. >> brown: let me just ask you, charles golvin, briefly, in 30 seconds or so, the death of steve jobs, of course, there were a lot of questions about what this would mean for innovation. are we near the end? are we seeing the end of the product lines that he influenced? >> no, i don't think so at all. in fact, one of the things that apple announced today, it's a small product, it's a new innovation in their headphone design, but they mention that three years of research and development to produce that product, and we've seen from the samsung trial and other evidence that his involvement stretched back quite a far distance into early product design. so i think we're still going to see products come from apple that have steve jobs' fingerprint on them for at least another year and maybe two. >> brown: all right, charles golvin, cecilia kang, thank you both very much. >> woodruff: we head west now to rural oregon, known for its forests and as a place where the timber industry is a major player in the economy. but there is growing concern from some residents about chemical spraying practi
. >> brown: let me just ask you, charles golvin, briefly, in 30 seconds or so, the death of steve jobs, of course, there were a lot of questions about what this would mean for innovation. are we near the end? are we seeing the end of the product lines that he influenced? >> no, i don't think so at all. in fact, one of the things that apple announced today, it's a small product, it's a new innovation in their headphone design, but they mention that three years of research and...
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steve king recently compared immigrants to dogs. >> ifill: congressman from iowa. >> and that's the kind of thing that doesn't play well with hispanic voters. several voters i talked to or participated in our poll told me they saw the republican party as intolerant. so romney and his campaign are honing by focusing on the economy they can keep their party focused and keep these other extraneous and often poorly received comments out of the dialogue. >> ifill: let's look at the flip side because until this happened the president was beginning to run in into head winds with latino supporters and activists because of the white house's view on deportation. does this mute that unhappiness? >> well, there's never a question over whether the president would win latino voters. it was always clear and republicans when they were speaking candidly would say listen,vcw we know we're not gg to win latino voters. their goal is to cut... the republicans' goal is to cut into the president's edge with that group. and, of course, the obama campaign wants to pump up turnout among latinos as much as possib
steve king recently compared immigrants to dogs. >> ifill: congressman from iowa. >> and that's the kind of thing that doesn't play well with hispanic voters. several voters i talked to or participated in our poll told me they saw the republican party as intolerant. so romney and his campaign are honing by focusing on the economy they can keep their party focused and keep these other extraneous and often poorly received comments out of the dialogue. >> ifill: let's look at the...
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. >> woodruff: but retiring ohio congressman steve la tourette predicted that in the end most could live with higher tax rates if they are part of a broader package. >> if i had to say where most of the votes are today, most will accept an increase in tax rates but they really want a way forward on how we're going to get the rest of the government under control. >> woodruff: but the only real certainty appeared to be that lawmakers will be back in washington right after christmas if there's to be any deal before the new year's deadline. and to two reporters who've been closely watching this story. todd zwillich covers congress for public radio international's "the takeaway" on wnyc. and carol lee of the "wall street journal" joins us from the white house. thank you both for talking to us. carol, i'm going to start with you. from the white house perspective, where do things stand? >> i think from the white house perspective, the ball is essentially in the house john boehner's court. i think the president and his team of advisors feel that they've positioned him fairly well, that he's in a
. >> woodruff: but retiring ohio congressman steve la tourette predicted that in the end most could live with higher tax rates if they are part of a broader package. >> if i had to say where most of the votes are today, most will accept an increase in tax rates but they really want a way forward on how we're going to get the rest of the government under control. >> woodruff: but the only real certainty appeared to be that lawmakers will be back in washington right after...
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. >> thanks so much, steve. >> ifill: and as early voting begins in colorado monday, 70% of the state's voters have already signed up to vote by mail. >> thank you. >> ifill: you can watch a photo collage of colorado campaign volunteers hard at work, on our tumblr page at newshour.tumblr.com. >> woodruff: in pakistan, a 14- year-old activist remains in intensive care after being shot twice, in the head and neck. today, the nation moved to express its anger after the taliban claimed responsibility. many pakistanis came together in protest today, over the shooting of a young teenage girl, malala yousufzai, by a taliban gunman. >> they don't want a woman, a girl like malala who knows what her rights are. who knows, you know, how to demand that, and who knows that she wants to live with dignity and respect. and i think today we are all gathered here to show our solidarity with malala. we want to tell, send a signal to all taliban that no matter what happens we will not let this country to go down like that. >> ifill: 14-year-old yousufzai had gained attention inside her country and beyond,
. >> thanks so much, steve. >> ifill: and as early voting begins in colorado monday, 70% of the state's voters have already signed up to vote by mail. >> thank you. >> ifill: you can watch a photo collage of colorado campaign volunteers hard at work, on our tumblr page at newshour.tumblr.com. >> woodruff: in pakistan, a 14- year-old activist remains in intensive care after being shot twice, in the head and neck. today, the nation moved to express its anger after...
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. >> reporter: steve bump has run a fireplace business in the des moines suburbs for 38 years, he knows fall is when people think about snuggling up to a warm fire, and more important for him, when they make buying decisions. >> if i'm selling romance and entertainment with my product, and i am, i don't want that customer to have all these negative thoughts in their mind about this ad that preceded me. >> reporter: bump says superpac- funded political ads are clogging up the airwaves. those campaign ads push his commercials off primetime and all his ads now cost 25% more. >> i'm probably seeing no less than 30 to 50 negative ads between 6:00 and... and 10:00, and that's watching the same channel. >> reporter: at oktoberfest in amana, iowa, tina wing has already heard too much from both sides. the campaigns also must contend with a sense of election fatigue from voters. >> i think i get calls every single day from every state across the nation. i feel like there is a voting booth for a reason, that its my business and nobody else's. >> reporter: but it won't keep the campaigns from tryin
. >> reporter: steve bump has run a fireplace business in the des moines suburbs for 38 years, he knows fall is when people think about snuggling up to a warm fire, and more important for him, when they make buying decisions. >> if i'm selling romance and entertainment with my product, and i am, i don't want that customer to have all these negative thoughts in their mind about this ad that preceded me. >> reporter: bump says superpac- funded political ads are clogging up the...
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in new jersey, congressman bill pascrell bested fellow democratic incumbent steve rothman after redrawn district lines pitted them against one another. and in keeping with the anti- union mood on view in wisconsin, voters in san jose and san diego approved cuts to retirement benefits for city workers. so will the wisconsin story change the campaign, the country? for more, we turn to craig gilbert of the "milwaukee journal sentinel" and susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa today." so craig gilbert, we've talked about this before, now you can tell us the answer. how did scott walker do it? >> well, ironically, as polarized as wisconsin, is i think charles franklin is right. there is a middle, there are ticket-splitters, there are swing voters. those obama/walker supporters we see in the exit polls, which is about 10% of the people that voted tuesday really symbolize that group and scott walker won that battle. so it's... everybody is not in one of these two armed camps. not to down play it at all. but this will come into play in november in the battle for wisconsin in the president
in new jersey, congressman bill pascrell bested fellow democratic incumbent steve rothman after redrawn district lines pitted them against one another. and in keeping with the anti- union mood on view in wisconsin, voters in san jose and san diego approved cuts to retirement benefits for city workers. so will the wisconsin story change the campaign, the country? for more, we turn to craig gilbert of the "milwaukee journal sentinel" and susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa...
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steve is in charge of the operation to get them replaced. >> what we do is bring in crews, two-man teams in here on a.t.v.s, and i had to work side by side with the forest service, assess the damages. then we take that information back to our engineering department. with a they do is they start drawing up how many poles it's going to take, what kind of material it's going to take to get that done. >> reporter: much of the work has to be done in very steep terrain. >> some of these areas we can't get our equipment in. you can't get a digger in or backhoes in. some of the stuff they're hand digging. some of these poles are 30, 40 feet tall. weigh up to 500 pounds. it's a job to get these things in the ground and get them up and going. >> reporter: in spite of the tremendous damage and loss, the homeowners we've spoke to said they were optimistic about returning to their mountain way of life. >> some of the things that are toasted are showing tiny little bits. they're going to come back. so some of it will come back. then i'll have to grow new things. >> reporter: pat baker an accomplished
steve is in charge of the operation to get them replaced. >> what we do is bring in crews, two-man teams in here on a.t.v.s, and i had to work side by side with the forest service, assess the damages. then we take that information back to our engineering department. with a they do is they start drawing up how many poles it's going to take, what kind of material it's going to take to get that done. >> reporter: much of the work has to be done in very steep terrain. >> some of...
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carolina milanesi, at gartner research, says that apple'sou miskes, coming so soon after steve jobs death last year, probably won't have long term effects on tm company. >> i think what you've seen in the apology was the reassurance that the core of apple, to focun on excelling in what they do, is still there. but the end game, they need to invest time and money. >> reporter: and that's just what google, apple, waze and a few other players, including nokia, tom tom and open st etet maps, will all be doing -all vying for a bigger niche of the exploding market for maps and advertising. >> ifill: you can watch more of spencer's interview with map collector david rumsey on our website. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: the u.s. death toll from "sandy" grew to 63, and more than six million homes and businesses remained without power across 17 states. the president said one of the biggest priorities is restoring power. he got a first-hd look at some of the storm devastation in newt jersey with governor chris christie. and travel in the region began to slowly resume, with tw
carolina milanesi, at gartner research, says that apple'sou miskes, coming so soon after steve jobs death last year, probably won't have long term effects on tm company. >> i think what you've seen in the apology was the reassurance that the core of apple, to focun on excelling in what they do, is still there. but the end game, they need to invest time and money. >> reporter: and that's just what google, apple, waze and a few other players, including nokia, tom tom and open st etet...
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chair steve king, another longtime friend and mentor, officially nominated ryan last night. he says that a secret to ryan's success has been a true passion and focus on an area that others often find arcane: the federal budget. >> has had plenty of opportunities for leadership postings. but he would say "i'm not sure it's for me, that's not my issue. so he stuck with his budget ideas-- despite having been offered leadership positions. and then, boom!, they said "you're the chairman of the budget committee." >> brown: he has a reputation as a policy wonk. is that deserved? >> it's earned. ( laughs ) this is a guy who goes to sleep in his office every night when he's there, reading budgets. >> brown: really? >> that's what he does. and he doesn't fall asleep real fast. he reads it. >> brown: in the past several years, ryan's influence as an intellectual leader has grown dramatically and his proposed prescriptions for spending cuts, lower taxes, and changes to medicare and other entitlement programs have drawn passionate praise and equally passionate criticism. in choosing ryan
chair steve king, another longtime friend and mentor, officially nominated ryan last night. he says that a secret to ryan's success has been a true passion and focus on an area that others often find arcane: the federal budget. >> has had plenty of opportunities for leadership postings. but he would say "i'm not sure it's for me, that's not my issue. so he stuck with his budget ideas-- despite having been offered leadership positions. and then, boom!, they said "you're the...
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it had steve banner's finger sprints over it, steve miller's fingers over it. it's the dooms day type of america speech. i gave him the benefit of the thought. i thought he would bring a unifying speech and really trytr to use this moment peacefula transfer of power to bring focuses together, and i think he failed. >> jeff green field watching all this from new york, is this a speech that's going to set the tone to the administration or is this a speech donald trump had to make because that's how he was elected.wa >> no, i think the former. had donald trump want to say something that indicated a break, it would have been more conciliatory. the striking thing about thishi speech to me is how much of that two minute commercial he made at the end of the campaign.p half of it sounds like something that could have been given by elizabeth warren or bernie sanders. the establishment has fewerrished you have not.d a small group of insiders have benefited and you have been left behind. and the other part of that is the extraordinary nationalism. a lot of time presidents
it had steve banner's finger sprints over it, steve miller's fingers over it. it's the dooms day type of america speech. i gave him the benefit of the thought. i thought he would bring a unifying speech and really trytr to use this moment peacefula transfer of power to bring focuses together, and i think he failed. >> jeff green field watching all this from new york, is this a speech that's going to set the tone to the administration or is this a speech donald trump had to make because...